Persons Quotes - Page 38

• Christianity is not a doctrine, not truth as truth, but the knowledge of a Person; it is knowing the Lord Jesus. You cannot be educated into being a Christian.

  Theodore Austin-Sparks

  Christian, Jesus, Knowing

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• If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Christian, Jesus, Earth

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• The person of Christ is to me the greatest and surest of all facts.

  Philip Schaff

  Christian, Jesus, Facts

  Philip Schaff (1866). “The person of Christ: the miracle of history, with a reply to Strauss and Renan, and a collection of testimonies of unbelievers”, p.5

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• A person who is discreet in speaking will be useful during the good times and will avoid punishment during the bad.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  War, Punishment, Good Times

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo, William Scott Wilson (2002). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.49, Kodansha International

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• By bringing shame to a person, how could one expect to make him a better man?

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  War, Men, Shame

  "Hagakure". Book by Yamamoto Tsunetomo and Nabeshima Mitsushige, circa 1716.

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• You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Good Life, War, Fate

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.63, Bottom of the Hill

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• There is one transcending level, and this is the most excellent of all. This person is aware of the endlessness of entering deeply into a certain Way and never thinks of himself as having finished.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  War, Thinking, Entering

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.54, Bottom of the Hill

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• The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Art, War, Should Have

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo, William Scott Wilson (2002). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.41, Kodansha International

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• Go ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  War, Lying, Men

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.103, Bottom of the Hill

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• As for the decorum at the time of a campaign, one must be mindful that he is a samurai. A person who loves beautification where it is unnecessary is fit for punishment.

  Kato Kiyomasa

  War, Love Is, Punishment

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• It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his disposition will not settle down.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  War, Doe, Bitterness

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2015). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.16, Xist Publishing

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• The price of liberty is, always has been, and always will be blood. The person who is not willing to die for his liberty has already lost it to the first scoundrel who is willing to risk dying to violate that person's liberty. Are you free?

  Andrew W. Ford

  Blood, Risk, Dying

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• No person that has enjoyed the sweets of liberty can be insensible of its infinite value, or can reflect on its reverse without horror and detestation

  Alexander Hamilton

  Sweet, Liberty, Horror

  Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc”, p.9

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• The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to which he has given his consent, either in person or by his representative; in the latter, he is governed by the will of another. In the one case, his life and property are his own; in the other, they depend upon the pleasure of his master. It is easy to discern which of these two states is preferable.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Law, Two

  Alexander Hamilton (1842). “The Official and Other Papers ...”, p.12

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• The tendency of taxation is, to create a class of persons, who do not labour: to take from those who do labour the produce of that labour, and to give it to those who do not labour.

  William Cobbett

  Class, Giving, Liberty

  "Paper Against Gold and Glory Against Prosperity. Or, an Account of the Rise, Progress, Extent and Present State of the Funds and of the Papermoney of Great-Britain Etc".

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• Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Government, Liberty, Association

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• The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Government, Liberty, Authority

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.211, Graphic Arts Books

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• No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire. Prayer ascends by fire. Flame gives prayer access as well as wings, acceptance as well as energy. There is no incense without fire; no prayer without flame.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Flower, Acceptance

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1976). “The necessity of prayer”, Baker Pub Group

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• God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in ourselves, but what' we are in the Lord Jesus; both our persons and our prayers are acceptable in the beloved [Eph 1.6].

  Thomas Brooks

  Jesus, Prayer, Hearing

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• If you are having difficulty loving or relating to an individual, take him to God. Bother the Lord with this person. Don't you be bothered with him - leave him at the throne.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Prayer, Thrones, Lord

  Charles R. Swindoll (1998). “Hand Me Another Brick”, p.21, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Courage, Expression, Long

  Statement during trial, March 18, 1922.

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• Because a person chooses to leave their home country and come to the United States does not necessarily mean they have the right to demand that their father or their other extended family members be allowed to come if they don't otherwise meet the standard.

  Jeff Sessions

  Country, Father, Home

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• The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.

  D. A. Carson

  Prayer, Approval, Reputation

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• God does not reveal information by communication: He reveals Himself by communion. Revelation is a personal meeting of God with man. It is a meeting of mind with mind or person with person.

  Sam Storms

  Prayer, Communication, Men

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• eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Business, Technology, Ebay

  "Online Extra: Pierre Omidyar on "Connecting People". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. June 20, 2005.

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